enum handling by cc under ultrix V2 wrong?

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sun Jul 1 10:32:53 AEST 1990


In article <1990Jun29.175209.16251 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> tbray at watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
>Am porting a big application to a decsystem 3100 running ultrix V2.something;
>the cc compiler complains about the following things...
>These all seem like gross violations of both common sense and of the ANSI
>C standard as I read it in K&R V2...

In general, it is unwise to assume that existing compilers conform to
ANSI C.  Many of them don't try, and some that try don't succeed.
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"Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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